[1rudeboy]

I've always meant to ask, and this is as good a thread as any other: why do some manufacturers square-off the forward portion of the trigger guard? Is it to keep your index finger from sliding off when you are holding the weapon but not shooting it (finger off the trigger)?

If that's the case, wouldn't it be safer simply to lay your index finger alongside the trigger guard instead of wrapping it around the front?

[marktwain]

It is to allow for a “better” two handed hold, where the index finger of the off hand pulls back on the front of the trigger guard. I became a legacy of the switch to two handed shooting that started around the ‘70s.

[Jagdgewehr]

Glocks have this feature. I personally don't know of any shooting instructor, combat or otherwise, who teach students to place their index finger on the front of the trigger guard. This includes both the dominant and support hand.

However, it is possible that they're out there and this could be a practice among many. Hence the squared trigger guard.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The squared off trigger guard was a bit of gun “fashion” at one point, allowing the offhand index finger to add some “grip” out front. I believe it was pioneered by Charles Kelsey of the Devel Corp. a 80’s custom pistol maker, or possibly the folks that made the ASP.(Both ahead of their time in many ways) It went the way of many leisure suits.